By The Associated Press

(AP) - SPY CAUGHT: An American software developer caught with more than 1,000 confidential Motorola Inc. documents before boarding a flight from Chicago to her native China five years ago is due to be sentenced for trade secrets theft.

MILITARY THREAT? Prosecutors alleged that among the secrets in the company documents she had were descriptions of a walkie-talkie type feature on Motorola cellphones that they said could have benefited the Chinese military.

BAGGED: In her luggage U.S. customs officials found a laptop, a thumb drive, four external hard drives, 29 recordable compact discs, one videotape and several technical documents labeled "Confidential Property."

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